Late 1950s in Britain, only became very well known in the 60s with such artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, to name a few...
When Did Pop Art Emerge?
Pop Art is a movement that emerged in the late 1950s in England and US. It is a form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration.
British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, ads, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships.
By this means they provided a meeting ground where artist and layman could come to terms with art.
British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, ads, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships.
By this means they provided a meeting ground where artist and layman could come to terms with art.
Its true that it was coined in England in the 1950's but it did not become a quintessential style of information until 1960 in New York.
Pop art emerged as social commentary on the consumer culture of Post-WWII America
It emerged in the late 1960s in England and the U.S.
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